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Eighty people caught in Net paedophile ring
News Spanish police broke an international child pornography ring on Friday, which had distributed more than 20,000 indecent images of children around the globe via the Internet. Twenty thousand indecent images of children primarily from poor areas in...
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
14 year sentence for Net paedophile
News A retired police officer who worked with children has been sentenced to 14 years imprisonment for the rape of four girls and the possession of thousands of indecent images of children on his home computer.
[February 26, 2001, 17:12]
Wonderland used encryption to swap child abuse pictures
News Seven UK men appeared before Kingston Crown Court for their first day of sentencing, charged with the distribution of indecent images of children over the Internet through an international pornography ring dubbed the "Wonderland Club".
[February 13, 2001, 9:32]
Hoax porn site traps Scottish bank manager
News Paul Chalmers, 43, was charged for downloading indecent pictures onto his computer's hard drive from the "stinger" site that was designed to trap offenders and record their email addresses. He admitted making indecent images of children between 13...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
13-year-old put on register for Internet paedophilia
News The teenager admitted to nine counts of possessing indecent photographs, and has been given an 18 month supervision order, on condition he attends a rehabilitation course. Contrary to reports, Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit confirms...
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Suicide follows porn charge
News Glitter, charged under his real name, Paul Gadd, has been charged with making 50 indecent photos of children with 50 additional counts of possessing indecent photographs of children. Miyazaki was arrested on suspicion of distributing pornographic...
[December 1, 1998, 14:26]
Law makes Scotland attractive to Net paedophiles, says expert
News He is adamant that the more lenient penalties for downloading or distributing indecent images of children over the Internet in Scotland will push offenders north of the border. The three appeal court judges rejected the view that child pornography...
[October 24, 2001, 10:08]
Thus bends law to avoid responsibility for child porn
News The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) -- the regulatory body responsible for protecting children online -- currently checks for indecent images on the Web by sight, which involves downloading child pornography in order to assess whether or not...
[March 28, 2001, 16:37]
Internet watchdog U-turns on Wikipedia ban
News The cover of that album — called Virgin Killer — includes the image of a prepubescent girl, which the group deemed a "potentially illegal indecent image", landing Wikipedia on the group's blacklist. IWF's overriding objective is to minimise the...
[December 10, 2008, 11:14]
Huge raid on alleged Net paedophiles
News Search warrants were issued under the Protection of Children Act, which makes it illegal to possess or trade indecent images of children over the Net. The joint project shows that the tools are available to help safeguard Internet users -- whether...
[March 27, 2001, 10:50]
Net paedophile gets five years
News Green met the girl in his car and took her to his flat where he began a series of indecent assaults. His Honourable Judge Tyrer sentenced Green to a total of five years for multiple assault charges and on eight counts of possessing indecent...
[October 24, 2000, 14:49]
Police target chatrooms in latest paedophile arrests
News Officers explained that the large number of arrests showed that the police were committed to apprehending those who possess and distribute indecent images of children. Today's nationwide operation should send out a loud message to those people who...
[April 24, 2002, 11:23]
Net-porn filtering hit with lawsuits
News They succeeded in derailing major portions of both the US' Communications Decency Act -- which would have made it a felony to deliver indecent material over the Net -- and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) -- which would outlaw companies that...
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
US kicks out online decency act
News It seems to me that, under your analysis, it could potentially be criminal to engage in indecent speech on a public street corner in the presence of minors," Justice William Kennedy said to Waxman during the March 19 summation in a comment that...
[June 27, 1997, 8:53]
Former Wonderland Club member jailed again
News Police in Sussex and the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) arrested the second-time offender, and charged him with 13 counts of distributing and 32 counts of producing indecent images of children.
[November 1, 2004, 14:44]
Blind man faces prosecution for listening to child porn
News The Protection of Children Act 1978 initially made it illegal to produce photos of children being sexually abused, whilst the Criminal Justice and Public Order Amendments in 1994 expanded this definition to deal with pseudo images of child...
[June 25, 2001, 18:24]
IWF chief: Why Wikipedia block went wrong
News In relation to the Wikipedia incident, that particular matter came about after a judgement about an image of a prepubescent girl on the website, which we considered to be indecent. How do people know it's indecent images of children being blocked...
[February 20, 2009, 16:00]
Wonderland paedophiles are sentenced
News Judge Macrae told the men that despite "pandering to the basest interests of man" they would have to be given credit for pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children. Three-quarters of a million indecent images of...
[February 13, 2001, 14:28]
Paedophile swoop nets 13-year-old
News Paedophile activity on the Internet in the form of exchanging indecent images of children is growing rapidly. In 1995 the Greater Manchester Unit seized a total of 12 indecent images, but by 1999 the figure was 41,000 -- all but three in digital form.
[March 28, 2001, 8:20]
US Report: Senate passes CDA II, filtering measure
News Though courts have upheld local ordinances banning sale of "indecent" materials to minors, the same isn't true for attempts to censor the Internet. In a 9-0 ruling last year, the Supreme Court struck down the earlier Communications Decency Act on...
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
